Winter 2014

Former US President George W. Bush accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Zuckerberg, and Kermit the Frog joined in. UK Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama paid to avoid it.

Obamacare provides a broad framework for universal health insurance, and its long-term success depends on a partnership between the government and private insurers. But is that a wise or a doomed compromise?